The Best Nonfiction Books of 2023

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You've seen our favorite fictional reads from 2023, so let's do nonfiction now. Here are the best nonfiction books Joel and I read in 2023. Expand for more information. 👇
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The Best Books of 2023: • The Best Books of 2023
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Please note that each book is only listed once, but it may appear in the video twice.
Titles Mentioned (in alphabetical order by author) 📚
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton: bookshop.org/a/99775/97817704...
The Talk, Darrin Bell: bookshop.org/a/99775/97812508...
The Ship Beneath the Ice, Mensun Bound: bookshop.org/a/99775/97800632...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann: bookshop.org/a/99775/97803077...
84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff: bookshop.org/a/99775/97801401...
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived, Ralph Helfer: bookshop.org/a/99775/97800609...
The Inland Island, Josephine Johnson: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819821...
How to Be a Good Creature, Sy Montgomery: bookshop.org/a/99775/97805449...
The Hummingbird’s Gift, Sy Montgomery: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819821...
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell By Shattered Shell, Sy Montgomery: bookshop.org/a/99775/97803584...
An Elephant in the Garden, Michael Morpurgo: bookshop.org/a/99775/97812500...
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@readingbytheriver5752 7 месяцев назад

Great list -- I'm a longtime fan of 84 Charing Cross Road, plus Countess of Bloomsbury Street and Q's Legacy. Modoc is on my all time top ten non-fiction list - I laughed and cried and nashed my teeth as I read. Of Time and Turtles was a present - reading starts tonight. Looking forward to The Guncle and The Ship Beneath the Ice. My top non-fiction book for 2023 was my first read of the year and it never budged- Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino followed closely by To Speak for the Trees by Diane Beresford-Kroger and Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx. My thoughts - can I start 2024 with equally good books. I am a big non-fiction reader (86%). Here is to peace, calm, and reading joy through out 2024.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I’ll cheers to all that in 2024-happy new year! I hope you enjoy Of Time and Turtles as much as we did. I haven’t read any of your top nonfiction from 2023, so I’ll have to work on that!

@MJ-in-Canada 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for turning me on to Sy Montgomery. I took your advice to listen to it as an audiobook. I’m on the final chapter of “How to Be a Good Creature” and it’s been an emotional ride from smiling and laughing to sobbing to feeling that my heart would burst from the love between Sy and the animals. I plan to read more Sy Montgomery but I need a break to recuperate.😂 Moving on now to “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands” by Kate Beaton. When I read the blurb, I thought, “Why would I want to read anything about the oil sands?” (insert snore here.) However, I’m glad I took a chance on it, and I’m glad that you enjoyed it, too. I read about 50% fiction and 50% non-fiction so I appreciate you including this segment on non-fiction.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I’m so glad you loved Sy Montgomery! I think she’s so great. Ducks is very emotional as well.

@carolnash5617 7 месяцев назад

Since the pandemic started, i have found an increased interest in nonfiction... mostly history and biography. So thank you for having this list. I will read Sy Montgomery... those subjects sound wonderful. Also.... 84 Charring Cross Road has been one of my favorite movies of all time for decades! I also read the book and it was charming... in fact, i watched the movie again on Christmas!

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

The movie is such a good adaptation of 84, Charing Cross Road. Ann Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins are so well cast. I hope you like Sy Montgomery!

@jlmo3027 7 месяцев назад

Sy is a wonderful author-narrator for "How to Be a Good Creature." Thanks for the recommendation! Also love your videos with Joel. It creates a nice dynamic to bounce your thoughts on books back and forth. Very enjoyable.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I have a great time filming with Joel, so I’m glad it comes across.

@marciajohansson769 7 месяцев назад

27:54 What poignant moment in the video Greg when you said that reading of time and turtles helped heal your shell. That was a beautiful way to describe the restorative splendor of reading a book by Sy Montgomery. I have only had the good fortune of listening to her on my local Boston public radio station but I totally get her love of animals and her kind-heartedness through her interviews. I have started the soul of an octopus recently.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I hope you’re enjoying Soul of an Octopus! I’ve just loved getting to know Sy Montgomery’s work.

@wordqueen2406 7 месяцев назад

You mention fun home and Persepolis in this video and I got really excited! I read both on the request of my dept head last year and we taught Persepolis to our advanced English students and they loved it!!!! It ties in well with 10th grade history standards and I can always work it into English standards. I need to teach this again this year!

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I forgot to mention Maus Volumes I and II as well.

@wordqueen2406 7 месяцев назад

@@SupposedlyFun good ones!

@GypsyRoSesx 7 месяцев назад

The synopsis of An Elephant in my Garden pulls at my heart strings. So beautiful 💚

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

It sounds like a great book! I think Joel convinced me to try it.

@alldbooks9165 7 месяцев назад

So funny watching Teddy give Joel kisses and realizing that all of you have mustaches and beards … all in the family.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

It’s true!

@bookofdust 7 месяцев назад

Greg, with your appreciation of the two graphic novel memoirs, both of which I also read and highly ranked this year, the book Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey blew me away and exceeded both of them and I highly recommend it.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

That does sound like a very interesting book-thank you for the recommendation.

@BandysBooks 7 месяцев назад

Fantastic recommendations. I’m working on increasing my percentage of nonfiction this year, so I will certainly be adding some of these to my TBR. The Ship Beneath The Ice & How To Be a Good Creature in particular sound like books I’d be interested in.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I hope you like them if you read them!

@awebofstories 7 месяцев назад

Okay, confession: When I saw the title of this video I thought, "Are they just going to gush about Sy Montgomery?"" Apparently, yes! I have yet to read her books, but now I'm just trying to decide which one of her books to start with.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

😂🤣

@user-fz4sq2bn1l 7 месяцев назад

I love that you did a non-fiction video this year! I like to read non-fiction and I also find it hard to compare fiction and non! I didn't read enough animal books in 2023- you have some good ideas on your lists. My favorite non-fiction book that I read last year was Bitch: on the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

That sounds like a very interesting book.

@GypsyRoSesx 7 месяцев назад

Great selection. So many beautiful animal books ☺️

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I didn’t even realize how many animal books there were until I was editing the video. 🤣

@janethansen9612 7 месяцев назад

My favourite non fiction books were In Love by Amy Bloom and Wifedom by Anna Funder. I have a few non fiction titles in mind for this year but starting off with An Immense World by Ed Yong.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I need to get to Immense World at some point.

@trudyjohns5150 7 месяцев назад

Hi there you three. I enjoyed, your video, as always!!! I really liked hearing about your books on elephants and turtles!!! I am looking forward to reading Of Time and Turtles. Thank you.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching! I hope you like Of Time and Turtles as much as we did!

@annegibson6072 7 месяцев назад

Good morning. You guys need to go to the Florida Keys and the Turtle Hospital. I read and listened to Of Time and Turtles on New Years Day.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

We’ve been to the Florida Keys a long time ago, but never did the turtle hospital. We should go back!

@curioushmm9027 7 месяцев назад

happy reading to you both too...and as a sy montgomery and elephant and polar travels love this was particularly delightful.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

Happy reading! I’m glad you enjoyed the video.

@hayleystenger2799 7 месяцев назад

Of Time and Turtles just showed up on Libby! We rescue turtles from our busy neighboring road on occasion, nobody has been hit yet, although the poor turtles are terrified as I move them. My favorite nonfiction books were Monster by Claire Dederer, (I would be really curious about your thoughts on this book, especially given your reviews on authors with problematic views.) Our Migrant Souls by Hector Tobar, The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore and Solito by Javier Zamora. Thank you for the suggestions, I hope to try Modoc. It sounds right up my alley.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I’ve heard great things about Monsters and Our Migrant Souls. Thanks for the recommendations. And thank you for helping to rescue the turtles! That must be so stressful.

@jordana99 6 месяцев назад

I’ve had Of Time and Turtles on hold on Libby for many weeks!

@curtjarrell9710 7 месяцев назад

My favorite non-fiction books of 2023 include Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (highly recommend), The Legs Are the Last to Go by Diahnn Carroll, Big Fiction by Dan Simykin (about the book biz and excellent) and Isaacs' Storm by Erik Larson (highly recommend this or any Larson book).

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I feel like I would find a Cather biography fascinating, so thanks for the recommendation. And thank you for the others as well!

@curtjarrell9710 7 месяцев назад

@@SupposedlyFun It's a concise bio as well, less than 200 pages. Lots of info and no wasted words.

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

@@curtjarrell9710 Good to know--thanks.

@starstuffpuff 7 месяцев назад

I adore Sy Montgomery and her wonderful, magical books. The way she talks about animals and her experiences, she's my soulmate :). I've read 5 of her books in quick succession and I have you to thank for bringing her work to my attention. Of Time and Turtles is next up :). I have a recommendation for Joel, since he's enjoyed two other books about ships and human endurance: Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into The Dark Antarctic Night. I read it in 2022 and it was an incredible read, kept me at edge of my seat. It's hard to read at some points (animal cruelty), but it was riveting.

@joelmcclanahan9004 7 месяцев назад

Both of those books are on my list!

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the recommendation! I’m so glad you have enjoyed Sy Montgomery. I think she’s just great.

@doloresprocaccio2336 7 месяцев назад

For Joel, I would highly recommend The Elephant Whisperer!!!

@joelmcclanahan9004 7 месяцев назад

I read it and loved it! It was part of my August Elephant month

@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 7 месяцев назад

I’ve made a list of 24 fiction and 12 nonfiction books I want to get to in 2024. I’m also going to try to read 24 from my backlist before buying new books. I’m not good at reading nonfiction. I only read 2 in 2023. My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden Good Morning Monster ( about therapy) 🍀👋☘️📚☕️🇮🇪📖📕

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I’m getting better at reading nonfiction, but considering that I read none at all until about ten years ago, I’m still not reading a lot of it.

@FeelToBelieve 7 месяцев назад

Last year, I read (and enjoyed) The Soul of an Octopus, at your recommendation. I totally agree on her writing style and clear love for the natural world. But, I was so disappointed that there was only one point in the book questioning the practice of capturing wild octopuses for exhibit - and it wasn’t from Sy, but from one of the leads from the exhibition to capture a new octopus when one dies. I couldn’t get past her not addressing this issue, so have avoided her others. I’m wondering since the others are about “rescue” organizations, maybe this isn’t an issue, but would love your thoughts on this. In Souls, the capture and containing in very small environments was purely for the enjoyment of humans, which felt icky to me.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I’m far enough away from reading the book that I don’t quite remember, but I do remember her talking about octopuses seeming happy in their enclosures and with the interaction they get from their handlers. I think that’s what helped me not worry about it (I generally don’t like zoos for the reasons you outline). But the other books I’ve read of hers are more about healing and releasing, so maybe they would be more to your liking.

@catherinejager3264 7 месяцев назад

I was able to go to a turtle/ tortoise sanctuary on Kauai - remarkable! The speed with which the moved was amazing. Reading How To Be A Creature (and Demon Copperhead - both because of you guys), but Of Time and Turtles is on my TBR👍🏽

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I bet that was an incredible experience! I hope you like How to Be a Good Creature and Demon Copperhead!

@erinh7450 7 месяцев назад

I have a copy of Inland Island here (my library didn't have a copy!), and I had been flirting with the idea of reading a chapter a month, and you may have sold me on it! (And I could read Now in November in November! 😅). I definitely want to get to the audio of Sy Montgomery's turtle book this year! It's in my Libby holds queue!

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

Joel is doing the one chapter a month approach for Inland Island! I do think that’s a fun way to do it. I hope you enjoy it-and Of Time and Turtles, too!

@Nina_DP 7 месяцев назад

I am currently reading The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street and agree, Greg, that it doesn't really capture the magic of 84, Charing Cross Road, but it is still delightful. What I wouldn't give to talk books with Helene Hanff while knocking back martinis! Wondering if Joel has read David Grann's The Wager? I think he'd like it given his admiration for Endurance. Cheers!

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

I would love to talk books with Helene Hanff! What a time that would be! Joel is planning to read The Wager soon.

@joelmcclanahan9004 7 месяцев назад

Wager is in my list of possibilities!

@janethansen9612 7 месяцев назад

Oh, and remember the Womens Prize this year will have a non fiction category, so some great titles may come from that.

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

That’s very true!

@mradcaqbdb 6 месяцев назад

Lovely video! I will be listening to The Hummingbird’s Gift this week as soon as I pick it up from the library. And I bought myself Of Time and Turtles as a post-Christmas, pre-birthday present to myself, so I’ll be getting to that too! I didn’t read a ton of non-fiction last year, but there were so really great ones. I’m already into my third non-fiction of 2024, so perhaps there will be more this year. Here’s my best non-fiction of 2023: The Dutchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff Nineteen Seconds - Louise Beech It’s A Love Story - Shirlie and Martin Kemp Standing My Ground - Harry Dunn Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths - Natalie Haynes Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

That's a great list! You have a couple that I hadn't even heard of on your list, so thanks for sharing. I hope you enjoy Of Time and Turtles when you get to it.

@mradcaqbdb 6 месяцев назад

@@SupposedlyFun All highly recommended, but they may not all be your cup of tea. Did you see my fiction list on your best fiction of 2023 video?

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

@@mradcaqbdb I've fallen very far behind on comments, so I'm sorry but no I haven't seen it. I'm hoping to get caught up this week.

@mradcaqbdb 6 месяцев назад

@@SupposedlyFun oops! 🫣 Sorry, didn’t mean to rush you. It’ll no doubt be another case of you only having heard of half of them. Give Teddy a smooch for me?

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

@@mradcaqbdb Oh please--no worries. I just debuted a bunch of videos back to back, so comments on new videos kept piling up and I unwittingly gave myself a lot to wade through. I will absolutely give Teddy a smooch!

@curioushmm9027 6 месяцев назад

you may already have tried them but i enjoy the nevada barr series of national park mysteries starring the park ranger anna pigeon.

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

I've been meaning to read Nevada Barr but slowed down so much on mysteries that I've never actually tried the books. Thanks for reminding me.

@hconf 7 месяцев назад

Remind me, an audiobook counts as a book read, check? Genuine question

@joelmcclanahan9004 7 месяцев назад

Yes, Audiobooks are books! 😊

@ZJ-kl4hu 7 месяцев назад

Of course it does!

@SupposedlyFun 7 месяцев назад

It definitely does to me!

@cherylc7952 6 месяцев назад

Have either of you read West With Giraffes? Lovely fiction based on a real event.

@myreadinglife8816 6 месяцев назад

Say Montgomery love fest! ❤

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

She’s so good!

@spexi513 6 месяцев назад

Yayyyy!!! - That was meeeee ( or also me if multiple ppl commented it) who got Inland Island because of your recommendation & decided to read each chapter/month during its month. I live in Ohio too, so it’s been a really cool reading experience I can witness in real time . 📖🪱💚

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

It sounded like such a fun way to read the book! I wish I had the patience to do that.

@spexi513 6 месяцев назад

I was so hype you mentioned it 💚

@spexi513 6 месяцев назад

As the kids say - I FUX WITH Sy Montgomery 📖🪱💚

@SupposedlyFun 6 месяцев назад

😂 😂 😂